S.N.S.E. Board of Directors and foundation members has decided that, since Professor Copeland has titled his alleged invention the Genesis G-pan, or the first of its kind pan, we intend to implement the 11th Commandment; Thou Shalt Not Get Away With
Read more…Global - The inventor of the G-Pan Dr. Brian Copland in this exclusive 2010 When Steel Talks (WST) interview, moves to explain some of the misconceptions about the instrument and moreover it's importance to the future development of steelpan movement
Read more…The Following are the Results of the Pan Expression competition stage at the Tanteen Netball Complex on Sunday May 4th 2014.
Good morning to ALL –
This is a call to duty. I am asking ALL WST members to join me (the “Ghost”), in returning to Trinidad and Tobago, for Carnival 2014. I know some of us already packed and ready, but I am asking those of us who did not plan on go
Read more…When Steel Talks extends birthday greetings to singer and writer David Rudder.
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Pan Trinbago has issued a response to an article published in the Trinidad Guardian of Monday 21 April 2014 under the headline “Pan Trinbago owes pannists $2m for Pan Is Beautiful XII”
It states: “The President of Pan Trinbago, Keith Diaz, communicat
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Pan Trinbago still owes $2.1 million in prize money and trophies to steel orchestras and participants of the Pan is Beautiful XII national steelband festival, held in November 2013. Now five months
The Economist
JUST before midnight on May 3rd, Dana Seetahal, a prominent lawyer in Trinidad and Tobago, left one of the island’s lively casinos. Five minutes from her home, a car blocked the road ahead. A van pulled alongside; there was a burst of
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Music of the diaspora marked the contribution of the UWI Intermediate Steel and Indian Classical Ensembles to the current series of musical recitals produced by the Department of Creative and Fes
An exclusive WST interview with Panorama arranger, recording and performing artist Andy Narell
“...You ask if I want to win Panorama. In its present form, I would have to say it doesn’t interest me at all. I would however like to be able to play
In January I started a thread asking for suggestions on an upcoming trip to Trinidad.
https://whensteeltalks.ning.com/forum/topics/pre-carnival-suggestions?id=2534462%3ATopic%3A418820&page=3#comments
A few people have asked for an update, here it is.
Fire completely destroyed the Flabej Steelband, Panyard and Panschool at the corner of Park and Abercromby Streets, Port of Spain around 2.00am on May 1st 2014.
It is believed that the origins of the fire was an electrical fault.
The school has been
Read more…The Intelligencer
Illinois, USA - For a student to learn the music of another culture is always intriguing, but to perform it in the very country where that music was born is something really special. And that is precisely what happened when a group
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ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Vandal(s) reportedly targeted Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra’s pan yard in Villa and destroyed several tyres on a trailer in the process.
The band’s spokesperson, Stafford Joseph said the damage to a container where used to store s
Read more…Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - All roads lead to Point Fortin as Mayor Clyde Paul and his staff of councillors mark the 34th anniversary of the Borough.
This event, which is described as a mini-carnival, attracts more than 30
The School
Success Village in Laventille, suburban Port of Spain, welcomed the construction of a co-educational, five year, secondary school in 1983 with attending students ranging from eleven to eighteen years. Renamed Success Laventille Secondary
Read more…Been loving 'Street Party' lately...it represents to me the Despers sound and a nostalgic view of Panorama gone by. As Clive Bradley would say Despers was his Pan University.
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I happen to stumble upon a video of Utopia Pan Soul playing Vengeance and it put me in a place that made me wonder why is it that most young people in the Mecca don't feel this VIBE, there is nothing like that slow jam.
We mainly speak about panorama
Read more…Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - The names Hugh Borde, Tripoli Steelband and Wladziu “Liberace” Valentino may not be familiar to many young pan musicians, musicians in general or random adults, but to the history of pan, hopefully
